Inventions, by Lee Konitz-Ohad Talmor String Project featuring Spring String Quartet

Inventions

by Lee Konitz-Ohad Talmor String Project featuring Spring String Quartet

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1.	Qu'est ce que c'est 05:37		buy track
2.	Pretty Peace 04:58	info	buy track
3.	Moon 05:17		buy track
4.	Lied im Herzen 06:10		buy track
5.	General Cluster 02:19		buy track
6.	Chunks 05:27		buy track
7.	FeeBeMee 04:25		buy track
8.	Alone in Cologne 04:48		buy track
9.	Struttin' with some Barbeque 03:28		buy track

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The mellifluous sounds heard on Lee Konitz-Ohad Talmor String Project: Inventions contrast the traditional saxophone-and-brass-based "jazz" sound. Konitz's alto sax and Talmor's arrangments and reedwork interact improvisationally with four accomplished Austrian string players who are also facile improvisers, The Spring String Quartet.

Talmor's arrangements take full advantage of the wide variety of timbres possible with string instruments, melding those string sounds with reeds to span a pitch range from lows in the bass clarinet and cello to highs in the clarinet, alto saxophone, and violin. The results make the sextet sound like a "mini-orchestra" of sorts.

"The String Project is mostly about collaboration," explains Talmor, "along the lines of the one Miles had with Gil Evans, or of any in which two artists find each other and mutually compliment each other's work and creativity."

Recorded in 2004 in Kefermarkt, Austria, at a studio located in a 17th century castle, Inventions was fine tuned through countless concerts, with Konitz and Talmor talking at length about each other's role in the pieces. The result is natural, organically flowing music that is a completely original blend of written and improvised music — both in terms of sounds and colors, but also in how the improvisers react to the sonic surrounding.

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Lee Konitz, alto saxophone
Ohad Talmor, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet, arranger
The Spring String Quartet
Christian Wirth, violin
Marcus Wall, violin
Julian Gillesberger, viola
Stephan Punderlitschek, cello

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released June 1, 2006

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Ohad Talmor New York

Ohad Talmor is a cosmopolitan saxophonist-composer-arranger based in NY.
Mentored by the legendary Lee Konitz, Talmor has collaborated with a who's who of the Jazz world including Michael Brecker, Joshua Redman, Steve Swallow, Billy Hart. He has written music for a wide array of ensembles, including the WDR Orchestra and a Double Concerto for Piano/Drums and Orchestra w pianist Jason Moran ... more

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